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“Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful.”

— Schumacher, E. F.
(1911 - 1977)

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picnic4degrowth New!

Where? Around the globe!!!

What? Organize or join a picnic and chat with your neighbours, colleagues, family or community about their ideas of what a post-growth society might involve. Help create or strengthen a post-growth study and/or action group in your community.

Bringing people together to envision a convivial post-growth society: Change always starts with a nice chat around good food!

READ MORE | 14 may. 2013


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The Great Transition: Degrowth as a passage of civilization

Degrowth is today not only an invitation to abandon the obsession with growth and the collective imagination based on unlimited growth, but also the most comprehensive effort to deal with the major phase of discontinuity our civilization is facing.

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Three New Special Issues on Degrowth:

Politics, Democracy and DegrowthNew!

Editors: C. Cattaneo, G. D'Alisa, G. Kallis, C. Zografos
Published: Futures, Volume 44, Issue 6, Pages 515-654 (August 2012)

A further critique of growth economicsNew!

Author: Herman Daly
Published: Ecological Economics, Volume 88, In Progress (April 2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.01.007
This issue is "In Progress" but contains articles that are final and fully citable.

Degrowth: from theory to practiceNew!

Editors: F. Sekulova, G. Kallis, B. Rodríguez-Labajos, F. Schneider
Published: Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 38, (January 2013)
Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability
Authors: F. Schneider, G. Kallis and J. Martinez Alier Published: Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 18, Issue 6, April 2010, Pages 511-518, DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.01.014
This article is in introduction to the special issue "Growth, Recession or Degrowth for Sustainability and Equity?" of the Journal of Cleaner Production.
Currently one of the 25 most downloaded articles from the Journal of Cleaner Production!

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Featured book

BRAZIL: Enfrentando os limites do crescimento: sustentabilidade, decrescimento e prosperidade. (Facing the Limits of Growth: Sustainability, Degrowth and Prosperity)New!

Philippe Léna and Elimar Pinheiro do Nascimento organize in this book, 24 substancial articles written in their vast majority, specially to bring the Degrowth issues and context to the Brazilian public. It presents the main ideas currently in debate: from ecossocialism to Buen Vivir, from economic inequality to environmental justice. Among the authors we can find known names such as Serge Latouche, Mauro Bonaiuti, Hervé Kempf, Martinez-Alier and Michael Lövy but also the Brazilian movemente, represented for instance, by José Eli da Veiga, Clóvis Cavalcanti, Alan Boccato-Franco and Andrei Cechin.

Léna, P.; Nascimento, E. P. (orgs.). Enfrentando os limites do crescimento: sustentabilidade, decrescimento e prosperidade. Garamond. 2012.

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